If the 200, 000 Germans who turned out to cheer Mr Obama in Berlin this summer are anything to go by, he will enjoy terrific global goodwill.

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Their candidates are now able to assail Mr Bush for damaging American diplomacy, and its store of global goodwill, without seeming weak on Saddam Hussein, and without undermining the support they will give to American soldiers if and when fighting starts.

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Moreover, HP grasps the benefits of supporting a geographically disparate set of social entrepreneurs, thus reaching within and across global communities and gaining from the goodwill created by these endeavors.

FORBES: The Unreasonable Institute and HP: High-Impact Social Entrepreneurs